perf_counters: powerpc: Add support for POWER7 processors
authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:54:01 +0000 (14:54 +1000)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:48:37 +0000 (16:48 +0200)
This adds the back-end for the PMU on POWER7 processors.  POWER7
has 4 fully-programmable counters and two fixed-function counters
(which do respect the freeze conditions, can generate interrupts,
and are writable, unlike PMC5/6 on POWER5+/6).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <18992.36329.189378.17992@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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